Rashtriya Lok Dal president Choudhury Ajit Singh, has said that the party is now preparing to go it alone in the upcoming Assembly elections.
The RLD leader said that the possibility of an alliance with the Samajwadi Party were negligible since the latter had already declared tickets on majority of the seats. He said that talks with the Congress had also not begun formally.
“Infact, since the past one year or so, I have not spoken to any Congress or Samajwadi leader on the issue of an alliance in UP. My doors were open to n alliance but I did not submit any application before the Congress or Samajwadi Party,” he said while addressing a press conference here on Monday.
Lashing out at SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, Choudhury Ajit Singh said that Mr Yadav had given up the ideology of late Choudhury Charan Singh.
“He is banking on negative vote against Mayawati and does not have a positive issue for the elections. In any case, he now prefers the BJP to the Congress becau-se he knows that a strong BJP will rejuvenate his party also. Mr Yadav has not moved out into the public since the past six months and he probably does not know that the biggest issue before the people is corruption,” he said. Mr Singh said that his party would fight the BSP directly in his bastion of western UP where his party’s strength is equivalent to the Samajwadi Party’s strength.
The RLD president, however, was evasive while answering questions about the existence of his Lok Kranti Morcha that seems to have disintegrated within the past four months.
“The morcha will be activated now because we had decided to hold program-mes together after July,” he said but admitted that the morcha was facing “teeth-ing troubles”. Mr Singh said that early polls could be held only due to the CBI inquiry into the serial killings in health department and the NRHM scam since the heat would be felt by the chief minister also.